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Probably The Worst Company in History 😈

Jesus sounds like ASUS in Spanish and a Donkey in Switzerland German, ASUS can be called a Donkey’s Ass

Turns out ASUS has a name that sounds like Jesus and probably more depending upon what language you know, personal I can tell you this much, ASUS ant no fucking saint or God for that matter.

It all began with Dream Machine 2014 and the USB ports disconnecting and reconnecting. Wait one moment, it began the first time I ever owned a ASUS product, witch was in 2006 when the motherboard would hang almost a minute before completely booting. It was ASUS P4S800D-X a ugly looking motherboard and something I could case less about at the time because the one before, ASRock motherboards wait one moment again isn’t ASRock a knock off of ASUS, Yes that’s right!.

ASRock may of been a knock off of ASUS back then and as of now ant anymore, guess that’s why the NAS\Server is still running. What went down for the ASUS Maximus VII Hero motherboard when I first got it, was the USB disconnecting and reconnecting and thought it was insignificant power been deliver to USB ports. This happened once every often and could be replicated so easily.

Until one day just before E3 2015 when summer was about to began it happened, I completely lost it, literally lost it. Ten years messing around with PC’s aka Machines and to only hate them has mush has it did when it took place.

ASUS caused over a decade all relationship to almost end on the cause of me losing what I love doing, been a machine head and pure PowerUser that most of you wouldn’t hold shit to, honestly I would burn this vessel up to prove you wrong along with me eating your soul in the progress.Read the rest of this entry »

The Console War is Over 🙂

The PC .vs Consoles has come to an end for me, noting wrong with a little extra cash

Its nice to be back in the digital world for once and I kinda mean that in a good way. I’ll try and tell this story without talking much about what happen, up to this point. With it been summer and all there’s always things to be doing around the house, work more or less, but not for me that was, not when you have punks running around everywhere. Kids with noting to do, so said what the hell, you pucks are going to mow the lawn this summer for some extra cash.

So with them mowing the lawn and been kids, loud ass mouths, I overheard them talking about stupid consoles and of course, had to get in on that shit. Not to mention the mount of times hearing Destiny and reading it in the head lines when flicking though the gaming news. Now when hearing Destiny I immediately think about the stripper me and girlfriend had dancing for us, Yes the girlfriend is that cool, isn’t yours?

The first person I asked goes by the name of Nickolas Robinson, he played hundreds of hours of you guested it Call of Fucking Duty. After a very long talk, I asked him would he be interested in buying a Xbox 360 considering his father knocked over the first one, with the game inside that lead him to purchase a new Call of Duty game, because the optical bay drive eat the disc, noting new coming from Microsoft right.

Seemed like he was interested at first, but he was more worried about getting high! The asking price was $120 dollars or mow the lawn and just pay me $100 dollars, pretty good price even though it only came with one game, Gears of War 3. The only reason I purchase a new Xbox 360 after I modded the second one. Weeks went by just like Nickolas did with is loud ass car and said to myself first come first serve.Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft Windows 10 😛

In case you have more than one PC, and in case you don’t want to wait for the automatic upgrade, you can get the Windows 10 ISO file and do either an upgrade or a Clean Installation on your PC.

The provided links will offer allow you to download something called Media Creation Tool and then the tool offers you either to upgrade your windows or create a ISO file. You can select your language, architecture, whether you use 32-bit or 64-bit hardware, and choose the Windows Edition you need. Make sure to check the System Requirements for Windows 10 ISO before you start the installation.

Lots of users if not most have not upgraded just yet. And if you are an impatient person like yours truly, by using this tool that becomes a forced update. The ISO that is download is 3GB in size, you get an option to upgrade from the ISO or make an install USB which you can use for other computers as well. If you want to burn it to USB file, you need at least 6GB drive or bigger to do so. The tool will automatically download the ISO that you can burn or download, and extract the ISO for a bootable USB installation drive.Read the rest of this entry »

Samsung’s SSD 840 EVO Advanced Performance Optimization 😡

Should of stuck with a Mechanical HDD if Advanced Performance Optimization acts like a Defrag Utility

After getting dream machine 2014 build up and running, the Samsung SSD 840 EVO had noticeable slow downs and didn’t know where it was coming from at the time. The ASUS Maximus VII Hero got the finger pointed at when I first noticed the slow downs, but it wasn’t the only thing that was causing slowdowns in the system.

Really don’t want to talk about the Problems I encountered with ASUS Maximus VII Hero motherboard, lets just say they should have did a better job packaging up their drivers, stupid fucks. Nonetheless the problem was fix by installing Intel Chipset drivers and not the ones from ASUS website.

Now comes Samsung SSD 840 EVO with extreme slowdowns and it was even more Noticeable when running a test that was found on PC Perspective website. Techie007 the developer of the application, wrote a new benchmarking program that would specifically test for an age/speed correlation by reading files already on the SSD, and then display its findings graphically.Read the rest of this entry »

What a Perfect time to be a Geek 🙂

Computex is one of the best events to attend, lets see what this year has to offer

Even though I given upon All-in one Liquid Coolers, Chassis, Heatsinks, Fans, Optical bay drives and Power Supply Units (PSU), that don’t mean it ant going to get covered in this years event. Everything goes when it comes to Computex, no matter what or how weird it many be, it’ll be linked.

The same can be said for company’s I dislike or hate, you have to have something to compare it to and who knows the most hated or disliked company could end up been one of the coolest peaces of gear at this years Computex.Read the rest of this entry »

Let’s Upgrade Our PlayStation 3 HDD

Plug-in Play these days are pretty much well, like the DOS days

When will people learn that you can’t backup 320GB of data to a hard disk drive with a FAT32 file system. With a FAT32 File System you’ll only be able to have one partition that can hold 32GB’s of data, not including Digital Vs. Binary, that leaves you with uncounted space along with Cluster Size on the Hard disk drive. When it comes to understanding sectors on the hard disk drive you also have to account for the hidden sectors that would be needed to access the data inside the 512 bytes per sector.

Newer Hard disk drives (HDD) in the last few years have been coming with 4K sectors and custom ways to handle the new 4K sectors, for example Seagate and Western Digital has it own way of dealing with old hardware and the way it can change the sectors depending on what operating system you use.

Until then, hard drive manufacturers will implement the 4K sector transition in conjunction with a technique called 512-byte sector emulation, The introduction of 4K-sized sectors will depend heavily on 512-byte sector emulation. This term refers to the process of translating from the 4K physical sectors used in Advanced Format to the legacy 512-byte sectors expected by host computing systems.Read the rest of this entry »

Introducing Many flavors of Windows 10 Editions 😕

Honestly do we really need that many version of Windows 10, ah the old days Home and Professional

That reports Microsoft in a blog. For the consumer there will be three versions, Home, Pro and Mobile. The Home version will be aimed at tablets, computers and hybrid devices.

The Pro version will offer more admin options and Mobile of course is intended for smartphones. Windows 10 will power an incredibly broad range of devices – everything from PCs, tablets, phones, Xbox One, Microsoft HoloLens and Surface Hub. It will also power the world around us, core to devices making up the Internet of Things, everything from elevators to ATMs to heart rate monitors to wearables.

No matter which Windows 10 device our customers use, the experience will feel comfortable, and there will be a single, universal Windows Store where they can find, try and buy Universal Windows apps.Read the rest of this entry »

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Now that I have a lot of time on my hands what else is there do but play PC Game's. I spend about fifteen hours a week playing electric guitar noting less, exploring and listening to new music, reading the monthly magazine's from PC Gamer and Maximum PC. Keeping up with the weekly news and keeping Stress down as much as possible the same time.

Also really enjoy looking for new software to play around with Building, Repairing, Tweaking, and Over-Clocking Computers. Modding Hacking Hardware like Routers, Consoles, Satellites and anything I can get my hands on.

When I ant doing any of the above, I'm outside enjoying the sun and ranting about stuff that make’s me mad. Plus repairing other people’s machines from the community, I also rant about that too, but it’s enough to keep me busy and can’t complain when you love doing what you do.